Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials was on hand to greet her. But the welcome turned into something like a bargain-basement sale. The crowd pushed, photographers struggled. George Marshall was conspicuously absent; he had gone to Walter Reed Hospital with an old kidney ailment. Mrs. George Marshall took Madame Chiang firmly by the arm, led her past the microphones of protesting radio men and into a State Department Cadillac...
...afternoon before MacWilliams had hustled the second load of soldiers off his EUR-46 at Nanking's military airfield. Soon he was cruising back over the Yangtze Valley rice paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and hung one leg over the arm of his pilot's seat. "One thing you learn fast out here," he said, "and that's how to relax. You just have to put the plane up there, snap on the auto pilot and sit back. It's the only way we can fly as much...
Though more conservative newsmen. have tried to laugh him off as a superficial, snap-brimmed Fearless Fosdick of journalism, none can match his hard work or his arm-long record of newsbeats...
Peek Up a Rope. If necessary, he will twist an arm. Last year he called John Sonnett, who was taking over the Justice Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett was punished with rough rides on the Merry-Go-Round. The column is equally open about rewarding those who do cooperate: some newsmen spot Pearson's sources simply by seeing who gets his backpats...
Back in 1938, he had examined Dizzy Dean's great pitching arm, found Dizzy a victim of bursitis, and predicted that his pitching days were numbered. Shortly afterwards, the St. Louis Cardinals sold Dizzy to the Chicago Cubs for $185,000, even though the Cubs knew of Dr. Hyland's findings. Last week three of the doctor's patients were easily identifiable as Cardinals. It was no secret either that the 1949 pennant hopes of the New York Giants would rise or fall on how skillfully Doc Hyland carved a bone growth from Catcher Walker Cooper...